Game 50: Dallas Mavericks (19-29) @ Houston Rockets (29-17)

[KillerLeft]

Didn't bother me at all. Looks like Kidd doesn't suffer fools gladly. Flagg handling the ball is a necessity. How does he improve? By handling the ball. This Mavs team is not a championship team, when they're closer to that, it will be important that Flagg is the best he can be. I'm sure it's tiring for Kidd to be asked the same inane questions over and over.

Setting aside that your paraphrasing of the criticism doesn't do it justice and simply focusing on what Kidd said and why, it DOES bother me. That was a completely unprofessional way to lose his cool, and after such an innocuous question that it seems pretty clear he was either reacting to some other stress he brought with him into the press conference or just had a chip on his shoulder about whomever was asking. Either way, it bothers me. So stupid to throw language like that around needlessly and casually, and all from a "role model." The position of Head Coach of an NBA team comes with a visibility that extends beyond the basketball court, and I think the idea that we don't expect more from him speaks to where we are as a society.